AI Research Highlights for COVID-19 Mitigation (Overview) As of Nov 25, 2020
《 Detecting and treating
infection by AI 》
〈 Protein analysis,medicine search assessment 〉
Participation in CASP_Commons ROUND22020(SARS-2-CoV targets) (National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Structure prediction and their quality assessmentof SARS-2-CoV proteins (Tokyo Tech)
Rapid safety prediction of antiviral drugs using
machine learning with ES/iPS cells(Kyoto Univ)
Repositioning of COVID-19 drug using tensor
decomposition based unsupervised feature
extraction (CHUO UNIVERSITY)《 Transmission suppression of infection disease,grasping human social behavior by AI 》
〈 Epidemiology andinfection prediction 〉
Relationship between COVID-19 death toll
doubling time and national BCG vaccination
policy(Tokyo Tech)
Research on centrality of temporal networks forpreventing disease spread (Tokyo Tech)〈 Inspection support 〉
Autonomous robots for sure specimen collectionof PCR tests (Tohoku Univ)〈 Support for emergency medical
treatment, optimized plan 〉
Accurate decision of emergency medical services
using Graph Neural Networks (Tokyo Tech)
Plans for transportation with minimum travel
distance to prevent medical collapse(Challenge 1)(Tohoku Univ)
Resource Allocation Plan for More Accurate
Patient Counting (Challenge 2)(Tohoku Univ)
Plan for Hospital/accommodation locationaccording to the stage of patient symptoms andtransportation plan of goods (Challenge 3)(Tohoku Univ)

with Human Mobility Data (National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology)〈 Social behavior analysis 〉
A Study of Discrimination and Prejudice during
COVID-19 pandemic (Tohoku Univ)〈 Education, medical care, nursing
care, health and so on 〉
Estimation of learner's attentional states with AI
analyses of face and body images(Tohoku Univ)
Improvement of home remote health maintenanceand promotion environment by AI service system(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology)〈 Telework, business 〉
Augmented Telework-Technologies for a New
Workstyle in a Post-Corona Society (National Instituteof Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Development of a remote environment for experiencesharing using an AI service system (National Instituteof Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Agent-based simulation for propagation ofinfection with social networks of people（Kyushu Univ）

Realization of acoustic telework environment for
intellectual activity (Tohoku Univ)

COVID-19 Pandemic AI Prediction Using Graph
Theory (Tohoku Univ)

Dynamic Haptic User Interface AI for Realistic Roomscale VR World (Tohoku Univ)《 Infection disease control by AI 》
Free Provision of ABCI, a cloud-based computing
system for AI, to support research related to the
new coronavirus (National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology)《 Others 》

Robots/drones for unmanned disinfection incontaminated areas (Tohoku Univ)

Plan to close public facilities and commercial
facilities and resume operations after requestingleave(Challenge 4)(Tohoku Univ)（Note 1）Red boxes: Established technology, industrial usehis/her own technologies

Formulation of individually optimized schedules
to avoid congestion in commercial facilities(Challenge 6) (Tohoku Univ)

The K indicator epidemic model follows
the Gompertz curve (Tokyo Tech)〈 Infection simulation 〉〈 Knowledge acquisition and search 〉 COVID-19 Transmission Simulation Across Japan
Knowledge Acquisition from COVID-19 related
articles (National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology)〈 Behavior grasping,behavior modification 〉《 AI usage for remote
circumstance enhancement 》

A Remote/Autonomous Robot Operation
Technology for Laboratory of Infectious Diseases(National Institute of Advanced IndustrialScience and Technology)

Formulation of office/remote work schedule withcommunication opportunities (Challenge 5)(Tohoku Univ)〈 Robot,remote circumstance enhancement 〉
Analysis and demonstration of robotic tasks that mediatehuman tasks essential to our life (National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Image analysis using for the understanding of
the supply chain status (National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Yellow boxes: Research and development stage

Green boxes: Plan for research project Blue boxes: Idea level research based on（Note 2）This classification is by AI Japan R&D Network considering each research organization (university, public institute, etc.) and similar topics. Please refer to each research activity individuallyfor more details of activity.